Our government says that you should cook a whole chicken until the temperature measured in the thigh is 180Â°F (82Â°C). If you cook chicken pieces, the government says, the thigh, wings, and drumsticks should be 180Â°F, while the breast should reach 170Â°F (77Â°C).
It's made by cooking down the starch, and then acid and/or enzymes break the starch down even further. Maltodextrin is a white powder often used in processed foods as a thickener or a filler since it's fairly inexpensive, as well as in pharmaceuticals as a binding agent. You'll find it in canned fruits, snacks, cereal, desserts, instant pudding, sauces, and salad dressings.
Maltodextrin is generally used as a thickener or filler to increase the volume of a processed food. Itâs also a preservative that increases the shelf life of packaged foods. Itâs inexpensive and easy to produce, so itâs useful for thickening products such as instant pudding and gelatins, sauces, and salad dressings.